Re: Member/Usermanagement

From: "Brent M Hendricks" <[email protected]>

> I think Dario is talking about the other direction.  ZMMUserFolder uses
> list membership as a basis for Zope-logins.  Making an Authentication
> source for XUF would do the same.  I believe what Dario is asking for
> (please correct me if I'm wrong, BTW) is going the other way: using user
> folder authentication as a basis for list membership.

Exactly exept for the everybody is member of the mailing list part. :-)

> (Eg.  you plug in
> a user folder into a list and suddenly everyone who is listed as a user
> is now subscribed to the list)

The problem lies in having a a different source of users for your list than
what you normally have for the login, which means that you in effect have to
maintain at least 2 different user-databases.

> If this is truly what is desired, it would take a bit more work because
> currently all of the membership information is stored *outside* of Zope.

yeah.

>   I believe it also presents some difficulties since most user folders
> don't store email addresses.  Also the user folder would somehow have to
> know that when you add/remove people they're supposed to get an email.

wel, this part is actually where xuf excells, membership in a list could be
a property of the user.

:-)

/dario